Team Vallas: Saving money by giving the same standardized test to 9th, 10th and 11th graders?
In order to understand things correctly, we have a question for Team Vallas.
As we have come to learn, you all, as the experienced “education reformers” among us, believe that more standardized testing leads to an environment in which students will learn more.
With that as one of your guiding principles, Team Vallas determined that Bridgeport students would be better off if they took three additional rounds of standardized tests, plus the State of Connecticut’s own standardized tests. I think the way it was explained was that starting this year, Bridgeport schools would conduct three sets of “CMT like tests,” in addition to the “CMTs.”
Round #1 was aptly named the Benchmark Assessment Test.
Teachers, students and parents in grades 3-8 were informed that Bridgeport’s new